This morning just after 9am, the mass action set off from the climate camp in a colourful noisy carnival style parade, after having assembled in the centre of the camp.

There were various different groups including a kids bloc with a banner reading "The Kids are Revolting!", a samba band, a bloc of people in white overalls and white dust masks with a banner reading "You Must Be Choking", a bicycle bloc, a group of the rebel clown army and a giant ostrich puppet (a reference to people burying their heads in the sand while climate change continues apace).

Other banners read "Decentralise Power", "Stop this Madness", "Drax The Killer" and "History Will Spit on us". Eventually people left the camp through the main entrance forming a larger bloc of around 400 people.

At the same time several smaller affinity groups were leaving the camp through different directions, as well as the white overall bloc which also split off from the main group, bringing the total of protestors to around 600. Meanwhile others were heading towards Drax from other locations.

Overnight the camp had been calm and the early morning was marked by torrential rain lasting several hours. Police partolled the perimeter of the camp, but made no further attempts to enter.